Tag: RBG

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow interviews Center president and CEO Nancy Northup on the consequences of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death. Northup is also quoted on ABC News and elsewhere.

The Center for Reproductive Rights remembers Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a trailblazer for women's rights and gender equality.

Statement from Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights:  The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg marks the passing of a legal giant who devoted her life to advancing the liberty and equality of women, first as a litigator and later as an appellate and then Supreme Court Justice.   Her clear, unwavering conviction that women must be given equal treatment under the law changed the legal rights of half the nation.  Justice […]

reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/20190524-WHPAPhotoFeature-feature-banner.jpg Sponsors and supporters of the Women’s Health Protection Act explain why WHPA now reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/20190524-WHPAPhotoFeature-feature-banner.jpg At the reintroduction of the Women’s Health Protection Act on May 23, a powerful lineup of government representatives and leaders in the fight for reproductive rights took to the microphone to share the what, the why, and the why right […]

The Constitutionally protected right to safe and legal abortion has never faced greater threat. But the Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision has implications that transcend safe and legal abortion. Roe binds together an entire class of personal freedoms, all part of the Constitution’s “liberty doctrine.” If Roe is weakened or overturned, it poses a threat to a host of intertwined […]

Trump and the Supreme Court: What Happens Now? reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/HP_whatHappens.png The consequences of Donald Trump’s election as president may be enormous for the makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court. Trump has pledged to appoint conservative, anti-choice justices, beginning with the spot on the Court left open by the death of Antonin Scalia. “President-elect Trump has publicly […]

What does our historic win at the Supreme Court mean for abortion access? Stephanie Toti, lead attorney in the case, breaks it down. To keep calm on the evening before the U.S. Supreme Court was scheduled to issue a decision in the most significant abortion-related case in a quarter of a century, Center for Reproductive […]

U.S. Supreme Court Protects Pregnant Workers’ Rights Court’s ruling allows Peggy Young to continue discrimination case against former employer UPS reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/feature_banner_peggy_ups.jpg (PRESS RELEASE) Today the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Peggy Young, a former employee of the United Parcel Service (UPS), will be able to continue her case against the company for discriminating against her […]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Gets It reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Elle-JusticeGinsberg-NewsStory.jpg If she wasn’t your hero already, take a look at the interview Justice Ginsburg gave to Elle magazine for their October issue, and you might reconsider. Writer Jessica Weisberg asks the 81-year-old Clinton appointee about topics all over the map—from the conservative pendulum swing on abortion issues to work/life […]

U.S. Supreme Court Lets Private Companies Deny Birth Control Coverage to Employees Setting a dangerous precedent, nation’s highest court allows bosses to discriminate against employees’ health care coverage based solely on personal, religious views (PRESS RELEASE) In a 5-to-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling today allowing private companies to deny their employees insurance coverage […]